Publisher's description:
Francis of Assisi, whose Gospel performance captured the imagination of his day, fostered a movement of men and women who were fascinated by the transformative power of the embodied Word. Learned or unlettered, theologian or penitent, their shared conviction took form in various gestures, languages, and literary genres. For their part, medieval artisans and craftsmen reflected this Franciscan predilection to preach in architecture, frescoes, and reliquaries. In Franciscans and Preaching, scholars from Europe and North Amercia offer the first extensive English language study of medieval Franciscan preaching.
Table of contents:
IX Editorial Note
XI Foreword, Beverly M. Kienzle
1 Introduction: The Franciscan Fascination with the Word, Timothy J. Johnson
SECTION ONE: GOSPEL LIFE AND PREACHING
15 Preaching in the Early Franciscan Movement, Michael W. Blastic
41 Franciscan Lay Women and the Charism to Preach, Darleen Pryds
59 A Theology of Preaching – A Theology of Transformation The Life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano, J. A. Wayne Hellmann
SECTION TWO: THE ACADEMY AND PREACHING
73 Franciscan Bodies and Souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on Scripture, Preaching, and the Cura Corporis / Cura Animae, Timothy J. Johnson
91 Polemical Preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure's Use of Paul as a Forerunner of Francis, C. Colt Anderson
115 Haec Visio Rapit: Mystic Love and the Erotic in Bonaventure's Sunday Sermons, Nicholas W. Youmans
145 Matthew of Aquasparta's Sermons on Theology, Joshua C. Benson
175 Poverty, History, and Liturgy in a Sermon Work of Bertrand de la Tour, Patrick Nold
SECTION THREE: PERCEPTIONS OF HOLINESS IN PREACHING
209 Gracious Women Seeking Glory: Clare of Assisi and Elisabeth of Hungary in Franciscan Sermons, Alison More
231 Preaching on St. Francis in Medieval Germany, Stephen Mossman
273 Sermons Preached to the Friars Minor in the Thirteenth Century, Michael Robson
SECTION FOUR: MEDIEVAL SOCIETY AND PREACHING
299 Focus on the Family: Bernardino da Siena on the Common Good and the Nefarious Other, Amanda D. Quantz
327 Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce and His Sermons on Muhammad and the Muslims (C. 1480), Steven J. McMichael
353 Fifteenth-Century Franciscan Preachers in Castile: The Example of Valladolid, Francisco Javier Rojo-Alique
SECTION FIVE: THE ART AND CRAFT OF PREACHING
383 “Ne Effluat in Multiloquium Et Habeatur Honerosus”: The Art of Preaching in the Franciscan Tradition, Bert Roest
413 Preaching by Image: The Counter Façade of the Basilica of St. Francis, Jay M. Hammond
451 The Making of a Legend: The Reliquary of the Tongue and the Representation of St. Anthony of Padua as a Preacher, Francesco Lucchini
485 Contributors
491 Illustration Section
519 Index of People and Places
523 Index of Texts and Themes